About Jumia:

Jumia believes that technology has the potential to transform everyday life in Africa for the better. Jumia was built to help consumers access millions of goods and services conveniently and at the best prices while opening up a new way for sellers to reach consumers and grow their businesses.

Listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in 2019, Jumia is the leading e-commerce company in Africa, operating in 11 countries. The Jumia platform consists of a marketplace, which connects sellers with consumers, a logistics service, which enables the shipment and delivery of packages from sellers to consumers, and a payment service, JumiaPay, which offers a safe and easy solution to facilitate online payment transactions. The company offers goods across a broad range of categories, such as phones and electronics, home appliances, fast-moving consumer goods, fashion and beauty.

Jumia in Porto

At Jumia Porto Tech Center we boast over 16 different nationalities. We have around 350 employees from several business areas, from IT, to Finance, to HR. The IT team represents 75% of it, so as you can see we are a major tech company, and as a Tech company, we share an innovative spirit. At Jumia PTC you will work under the most updated technologies and work methodologies. We are great fans of Agile philosophy and we aim to keep things simple but smart. Also, for Jumia, technology relates with improvement for our world. We see technology as something we need to put purpose into. Our mission is to leverage technology to improve everyday life in Africa and we do it  by delivering convenient and affordable online services to consumers, helping them fulfill basic everyday needs. And while we’re present in Africa, we get to take African economy online, helping small and large businesses grow and reach new consumers. This is what drives our day to day decisions. :)

We are looking for great people to join our amazing teams and celebrate our achievements. At Jumia we work hard, but we do Tech With Purpose!

Are you eager to work in a great team and share knowledge? Do you like problem analysis and solving? Do you have a solution oriented and proactive attitude? Jumia Porto Tech Center is for you!

What you will be doing

  • Vision and Strategy: Develop and communicate a clear vision for your product. Define the strategic direction across various verticals such as Mall, Marketplace, Supply Chain, Finance, and JumiaPay, ensuring alignment with the overall business strategy
  • Product Roadmap: Build and maintain a roadmap that reflects the business priorities while balancing the technical needs of backend systems
  • Team Leadership: Lead and collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and continuously deploy innovative solutions
  • Stakeholder Management: Act as the primary contact for all matters related to your product, liaising with stakeholders across the organization to gather requirements and transform them into actionable project streams
  • Performance Metrics: Define and track key performance indicators for your product area, ensuring the team's output aligns with business goals and contributes to user satisfaction.
  • Agile Practices: Champion agile best practices and methodologies to drive efficiency and effectiveness within your team
  • Optimize User Experience: Refine the processes users experience when interacting with our products.
  • Data-Driven Decision Making: Help the product management team prioritize decisions based on comprehensive product data.
  • Scalable Growth: Ensure the product organization scales and grows smoothly with minimal friction
  • Vision and Direction: Provide vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders, creating requirements and specifications
  • Backlog Management: Oversee backlog management, iteration planning, and user story elaboration
  • Agile/Scrum Best Practices: Guide the team and organization in the use of Agile/Scrum practices and values
  • Product Release Planning: Lead the planning of product release plans and set expectations for the delivery of new functionalities
  • Impediment Mitigation: Actively mitigate impediments impacting the successful completion of Release/Sprint goals

What we are looking for

  • Experience: 6-7 years as a Product Manager with solid Agile experience
  • Technical Understanding: Strong understanding of technology, languages, and applications
  • Requirement Definition: Proven ability to define requirements that address business challenges and identify necessary technical and business changes
  • Clear Communication: Ability to communicate clearly across technology and business teams
  • Initiative Support: Experience in supporting and rolling out initiatives to commercial teams

We Offer:

  • A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment
  • A unique opportunity of having strong impact in building the African e-commerce sector
  • The opportunity to become part of a highly professional and dynamic team
  • An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer term objective is to train the next generation of leaders

 

 
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